by Q&Q Staff

Staffing and funding controversies plague the half-century-old literary journal The Malahat Review

For eight years, Iain Higgins, a professor in the University of Victoria’s English department, sat on the board for the prestigious literary journal The Malahat Review, where he also served as associate editor. But in ... Read More »

August 9, 2018

Tanis MacDonald: surviving as an “out-of-line” artist in a smaller community

By Q&Q Staff

Do you live in a major urban centre? Take this short test. You are giving a reading from your latest book at your local bookstore, and you invite a friend who lives an hour’s travel ... Read More »

August 2, 2018

Claudia Dey

By Q&Q Staff

An unforgettable vision inspired Claudia Dey’s new novel, Heartbreaker

July 20, 2018

Joshua Whitehead: “I created the character of Jonny Appleseed because he would not let me be”

By Q&Q Staff

I have grappled with how to define myself for the majority of my life. I first came out as gay some years ago, but quickly learned that “gay” signaled a certain classed, raced, gendered, and ... Read More »

June 28, 2018

Newfoundland, PEI, territories rejoin Public Lending Right sampling system

By Q&Q Staff

The Public Lending Right Program is expanding its sampling system to ensure cross-Canada coverage. This year, the initiative, which is administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, will include at least one library or library ... Read More »

June 25, 2018

Fall Preview 2018: Seven debuts

By Q&Q Staff

The Death Scene Artist Andrew Wilmot Buckrider Books/Wolsak & Wynn, Oct. This strange and surrealist tale focuses on a film extra suffering terminal cancer who recounts a tragic love affair with an actor who died ... Read More »

June 20, 2018

Deal Spotlight: Bruce McArthur’s victims will be focus of a book by reporter Justin Ling

By Q&Q Staff

McClelland & Stewart has acquired rights to publish reporter Justin Ling’s authoritative account of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur and the string of missing men from Toronto’s Gay Village. [Editor’s Note: Bredin is a friend ... Read More »

May 29, 2018

As it looks to expand its market to the trade, University of Toronto Press combines its two publishing divisions

By Q&Q Staff

A retirement, two lease expiries, and long-term strategic planning converged to prompt the merger of the scholarly research and university textbook divisions at one of Canada’s oldest and most storied university presses. The two branches ... Read More »

May 28, 2018

2018 Salary Survey: Adam Pottle on the lack of disabled writers and insufficient industry representation

By Q&Q Staff

A troublesome yet familiar trend arose in the results of Q&Q’s annual salary survey, which provides a glimpse of the Canadian publishing industry and the people working within it: out of 345 total respondents, only ... Read More »

May 17, 2018

Spotlight on Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing looks to expand its audience beyond academia

By Q&Q Staff

Since its founding by Errol Sharpe in 1992, Fernwood Publishing has focused on books with social-justice themes, often from a radical perspective, in an effort to challenge mainstream thinking. The bread and butter for the ... Read More »

May 10, 2018

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Staffing and funding controversies plague the half-century-old literary journal The Malahat Review

Tanis MacDonald: surviving as an “out-of-line” artist in a smaller community

Claudia Dey

Joshua Whitehead: “I created the character of Jonny Appleseed because he would not let me be”

Newfoundland, PEI, territories rejoin Public Lending Right sampling system

Fall Preview 2018: Seven debuts

Deal Spotlight: Bruce McArthur’s victims will be focus of a book by reporter Justin Ling

As it looks to expand its market to the trade, University of Toronto Press combines its two publishing divisions

2018 Salary Survey: Adam Pottle on the lack of disabled writers and insufficient industry representation

Spotlight on Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing looks to expand its audience beyond academia

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